An undergraduate at St John’s College, Cambridge, who matriculated in 1817. Smith was invited by the Master of Magdalane College to transcribe Samuel Pepys's diary in readiness for publication - a task which he commenced in 1819 and completed in 1822. A clergyman by profession, Smith became Rector of Baldock in 1832 and continued there until his death in 1870.

In the *College Magazine* Photograph - a much later photograph (full length and bearded) as frontispiece - this photograph was presented to the College, but is now lost, *College Magazine*, No. 52 (1926) pp. 65-66

Latham, R. C. *Pepys and His Editors* (Occasional Paper No. 6, 1992) p. 2.